Presenter:

Yuwei Gu(Chemistry, MIT)

Authors:

Yuwei Gu(Chemistry, MIT)

Jeremiah Johnson(Chemistry, MIT)

Recently, the merger of polymer networks comprised of flexible polymer chains with comparably rigid metal-organic assemblies, such as metal-organic cages/polyhedra (MOCs) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), has received extensive attention. In principle, such materials could combine the advantageous properties of each of these classes of networks. We have studied the properties of polymer networks comprised of telechelic macromers end-functionalized with ligands that form M2L4, M3L6, M12L24, and M24L48 MOCs. Addition of Pd2+ to these macromers produces constitutionally isomeric